In this thesis, I attempt to analyze the possible causes for the optionality of Catalan
participle agreement with preceding direct object third person clitic pronouns in the
present perfective structure. I will present ...

In this paper, I discuss the formation of linguistic identities among Bhutanese Refugees
in South Philadelphia and their impact on and relationship to ethnic and national
identities. The Bhutanese Refugees lived in Bhutan ...

This thesis explores what constitutes bilingualism between signed and oral
languages, specifically between American Sign Language (ASL) and English.
We consider the challenges deaf students face in acquiring print ...

The distinction between stage- and individual-level predicates has proven useful to
a number of successful theories regarding the interpretations of sentences with bare
plural subjects. A series of related theories by ...

This thesis investigates the status of verbal N -V compounds in Catalan among three
different age groups of bilingual speakers of Catalan and Spanish in Catalonia. Examples
of verbal compounds appear in many articles ...

This thesis provides a description and structural account of multi‐verb
constructions in Twi, focusing on differentiating coordinate from non‐coordinate structures,
a task which has been neglected in the literature on ...

The word cisgender is in the process of emerging to fill in what was (and remains for some) a
lexical gap for the meaning 'not transgender or gender non-conforming'. I investigate the
etymology, history, and current state ...

Catalan has had a long history during part of which its use was suppressed. After the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco ended, Catalonia became an autonomous community and
Catalan became co-official with Castilian. Since ...

This thesis is divided into three broad segments. The first segment examines the
discourse contexts in which halt may legitimately occur. Several reasonably detailed
discourse-excerpts from the German magazine Der Spiegel ...

There are many reasons to read poetry, filled with heroics and folly, sweeping metaphors and engaging rhymes. It can reveal much about a shared cultural history and the depths of the human soul; for linguists, it also ...

Although the empirical process of language loss has been well documented
through statistical analysis and population demographics, the personal narratives of the
individuals who speak these dying languages are rarely ...

While research concerning the phonology of sign languages has been abounding, the phonetics of sign languages has not been as well elucidated and few cross-linguistic studies have emerged. Moreover, the nature of internal ...

Linguists in the United States have been interested in the dialects of English-speakers from
Maine for many decades (e.g., Perkins 1927, Heffner 1938, Lambert 1976), but few researchers
have focused exclusively on Maine ...